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Board approves $900,000 Community Foundation contract to manage opioid-settlement grant round; asks for metrics report by March 2026

Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors · November 5, 2025
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Summary

The board approved a multiyear contract with the Community Foundation to administer $900,000 in opioid-settlement grant funds for community nonprofit programs. Supervisors asked staff to return by March 2026 with program metrics, departmental grant recipients, and coroner/sheriff data on overdoses and fatalities to inform future allocations.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 4 approved a new multiyear contract with the Community Foundation to administer a $900,000 grant round funded by county opioid-settlement payments.

Department staff said the county's opioid-settlement allocation totals roughly $26 million spread across many years; the…

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